Our series of weekly NASCAR driver interviews continues with Martin Truex Jr., who will co-host the annual "Catwalk for a Cause" charity event tonight with his girlfriend, Sherry Pollex. The event is sold out, but fans can bid on silent auction items here.

Q: Whose driving style most closely resembles yours?

A: Denny Hamlin. Just from racing with him, I feel like we're similar in driving style. We run good at a lot of the same places, and when I'm around him, I feel like we do a lot of the same things.

Q: Do you collect any of your own memorabilia, such as firesuits, diecast cars or helmets?

A: Sorta, but I don't have my own shrine. (Laughs) I have stuff for my race shop, but I don't have anything in my house -- just some stuff out in the garage.

Why don't you keep any of it in your house?

I don't know. I think it's kind of weird to look at pictures of yourself all over the place. I like pictures of me and my family, my dog, pictures of fish I've caught, vacation pictures, stuff like that. When you're home, you like to keep racing out of it and get a little downtime.

Q: What percent of success in NASCAR is the car, what percent is driver and what percent is luck?

A: It's 33, 33 and 33. You've got to have them all. Obviously, you've got to be a great driver to get to this level and compete and consistently win races. But no matter how good you are, you can't do it without a good car. And if a caution falls every time you're in position to win or you get a flat tire when you're leading -- if things like that happen constantly, you're screwed, too. So you've got to have them all.

Q: What person outside of your family has done the most for your racing career?

A: Dale Jr., because he gave me the opportunity to have a full-time ride in the Nationwide Series -- well, the Busch Series back in the day. If he hadn't taken a chance on me, there's no telling where I would be right now. I may have never gotten a full-time ride (in Sprint Cup). We don't know.

We ran a couple races with my dad's team and we ran pretty good for what we had -- three of us working in the shop -- and we qualified in the top 10 two of the times we ran it. But that doesn't do it for you.

The opportunity Dale Jr. gave me, the first couple years helped me a lot with getting going and winning championships. That paved the way for me, for sure.

Does he ever hold it over you?

Absolutely not, no. I think he's proud of what we accomplished together -- I know as an owner, he was. Even to this day when he sees me do well, he probably thinks about it. I know he was the same way with Brad (Keselowski), because that deal was kind of the same -- without that big opportunity, there's no telling where we'd be today.

Q: You come into contact with a lot of people every weekend -- your team, sponsors, media, fans -- and they all want a piece of your time. How do you decide how to prioritize your time?

A: Try to keep a schedule (laughs and looks at public relations representative Traci Hultzapple, who takes a bow). Traci tries to keep a schedule. The most important thing when we come to the racetrack, obviously, is the race car and doing your job. So you try to put that first.

The fans are right there behind that -- you've got to make time for them when they're out there and they're around. When you're walking through the garage and people come up to you asking for an autograph, you have to do it. You're not going to say no. It's nice to see them, we're glad they're here and we're glad they want autographs.

So you just kind of get used to all those things and you kind of have a routine throughout the weekend. I can go in there and be 100% engaged in the race car in one minute, then come out here and talk to you a minute later and then I can go right back in there and remember what we talked about and get right back on track. You just kind of learn to bounce around and do different things throughout the day.

Q: I often hear fans ask drivers something like, 'Hey, remember me from that autograph session three years ago?' So it's clear they want to be remembered. What is something a fan could do to be remembered by you -- without being totally crazy?

A: You mean, aside from like getting naked or something? (Laughs)

Exactly, yes.

Well, I'll be the first to tell you I'm really bad with names -- but I'm really good with faces. So I remember people a lot from autograph sessions and things, but I couldn't tell you their name for anything. I even have people that I get close to and spend time with maybe once or twice a year -- you'll go fishing at their place or something like that -- and I have trouble remembering their names sometimes. But if I see them in a crowd in the middle of nowhere, where I had no idea they'd be there, I'd recognize them. So that's kind of my deal. I remember a lot of people at autograph sessions -- they don't have to do anything crazy. I just tend to remember faces pretty well.

It was a Busch Series race at Bristol (in 2005) with Geoffrey Bodine. He was in a bad car and it was really slow, he was in the way and I was running third or fourth. So I come off Turn 4 and he gives me the outside and just runs me straight in the fence. So I just went into Turn 1 and spun him out and NASCAR put me at the rear. That was the only time I've ever spun anybody out on purpose -- at least that I can remember.

Q: Is there anyone you used to clash with in the garage but now you get along with them or are even friends?

A: I don't recall anyone, because I have not had any really bad run-ins or multiple run-ins with the same guy. I've had issues, but they've always gone away because that's part of racing: You get into it with a guy one week and if he treats you well from there on out, you forget about it.

Really, there are none that come to mind.

So does that mean you're no longer mad at Jeff Gordon from what happened a few years ago at Sonoma?

Oh, heck no, that's way in the past. I gave him a couple months there where I thought about it when we were racing around each other thinking, 'If he gives me a reason to do something stupid, I might.' But he never did. He raced me respectfully and clean, and actually, I benefited from it.

Even though that one race I was really mad because we had a really good car and I felt like we had a good chance of winning that day, I probably gained more long term by losing short term. I gained a lot of respect with the way we raced together after that. He's shown a lot more respect for me on the racetrack after that, so it was a good thing, I thought. A lot of good came out of it.

Q: What's the best racing-related movie?

A: It's hard not to say Days of Thunder. When I was a kid, I went to see it in the theater with my dad as soon as it came out, and I've always loved it. It's still good to this day.

What's your favorite line?

"I'm dropping the hammer, Harry." (Raises his voice to a shout) "HARRY! I'M DROPPIN' THE HAMMER!" It's like he was just riding around all day and decided, "Oh, hey, I'll put it in fourth gear now." You know? (Laughs) That's pretty funny.

Q: What's your song of the moment right now? Like the song you can't get enough of.

Q: Define yourself without NASCAR. Who are you away from the racing stuff?

A: Away from the track, I'm about as normal as anyone you could ever meet. If people didn't know I was a race car driver, people would mistake me for anyone else. I'm just a regular guy. I don't like fame. I just like to go out, not be noticed and be a regular Joe -- and I really don't have any problem doing that, so it works out good.

Q: I've been asking each person to give me a question for the next interview. Last week was Mike Bliss and he wanted to know: What was the model and color of the first vehicle you ever raced?

A: Mine was a go-kart. It was a blue Invader chassis go-kart. For some odd reason, it came with a pink rear bumper. And I was so embarrassed about it, but my dad would not let me change it until I needed a new one. He said, "If you beat all the boys with a pink rear bumper, you're doing something." So I left it on there a couple weeks, and I damn sure won the first day out in it. After the race, I was like, "How do you boys like getting beat by some kid with a pink rear bumper?" (Laughs)

Q: And do you have a question I could ask the next person?

A: I think you should ask about (Chief Appellate Officer) John Middlebrook. Do you think someone at NASCAR pissed off John Middlebrook? Because he's giving back points and reducing the crew chief suspensions. (Laughs) Ask them why they think the crew chiefs got smaller suspensions.

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MARTIN TRUEX JR.'S THREE FAVORITE APPS

I'm not a big app person. I don't play games on my phone. I just use it for what it's supposed to be: a phone. Texting, phone calls, e-mail and Twitter. That's it.